@rnv I read it along with four other books so far: Faces of Love, which includes the work of Jahan Malek Khatun, a woman from 14th century Iran; Songs of the Kisaeng, Korean courtesans from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Songs of Love And War: Afghan Women's Poetry, landays by anonymous 20th century Afghani women; The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, women of the Japanese court, writing in the 9th and 10th/11th century respectively. There is an essay to be written connecting these women poets of Asia from such disparate times, cultures, and classes. (Jahan Malek Khatun was royalty; Ho Xuan Huong was a concubine.) It might not be my essay to write, but I really think it's one worth writing.